You cannot help me. Because I will outwit you. Because I cannot stop outwitting you. Because all I know how to do is outwit you. I would not know what to do without trying to outwit you. I do not know what is inside of me but what is inside of me that protects me and the inner me are two different things.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-01 14:58:00 UTC
The number of hours you have to spend mastering any art of the hand (drawing, etching, painting, sculpture) is daunting. Which is why it matters so much that you start before age 10 or so. Then by the time you’re 18 or 20 you have enough manual skill to produce something that requires thoughtful design.
This is really the reason that I didn’t go into the arts. I was happy with drawing (black and white), but I couldn’t imagine a life that ‘isolated’ (what some craftsmen consider relaxing). And worse, at the time, the art world was still engaged in the last throws of pop/minimalism.
I was far more interested in the history of art, and the theory of art, than I was in the construction of it.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-01 07:02:00 UTC
PHILOSOPHY IS DEAD? NOPE. SORRY STEPHEN.
—“Stephen Hawking, the renowned physicist, has declared that “Philosophy is dead”.
Speaking to Google’s Zeitgeist Conference in Hertfordshire, the author of ‘A Brief History of Time’ said that fundamental questions about the nature of the universe could not be resolved without hard data such as that currently being derived from the Large Hadron Collider and space research.
“Most of us don’t worry about these questions most of the time. But almost all of us must sometimes wonder: Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead,” he said. “Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.”
Prof Hawking went on to claim that “Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.” He said new theories “lead us to a new and very different picture of the universe and our place in it”.
In a 40-minute speech, Prof Hawking said that the new “M Theory” of the universe was the “unified theory Einstein was hoping to find”. He compared the idea to the computer programme Google Earth, saying it was a “map” of theories, but added that a new, bigger Hadron Collider the size of the Milky Way was needed to collect more data to prove it.
“This technology is some way off,” he said, “and I don’t think even Google could afford to build it.””—
RESPONSE
1) Well, there is a difference between religion and philosophy and science. Religion=animism/anthropomorphism/anthropocentrism. Philosophy = epistemology, decidability/choice and ethics. Science = organized research. However, decidability in physical science and decidability in ‘social science’ (philosophy) are very different things.
2) —Why are we here? Where do we come from?— Is a religious not philosophical question. They are also nonsensical. If we discovered some intentional agent (a god), then we could ask why are we here, or where do we come from. But without that intentional agent, we must ask “Since we are an accident, what shall or what should we do with our lives?”
3) —philosophers have not kept up with—
Well I have to agree with the fact that philosophers have failed to integrate science into their disciplines for a wide variety of reasons. the most significant of which is that it would render most of intellectual history as error, and their methodology entirely vacuous.
That said, it is entirely possible to integrate philosophy and science. I do it every day.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-01 06:14:00 UTC
Retweeted Alice Teller (@AliceTeller):
Maybe if you went back to Mexico and told them everything we do right here, instead of telling us what we do wrong, both would improve..
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-01 05:49:00 UTC
Happy Easter, princess. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-01 05:29:00 UTC
Humor, clownishness, and silliness are just a shield to defend against engaging in the stupidity of others, and avoiding the effort of correction and education.
Common people both appreciate simple humor, and they don’t carry the burden of the academy’s pseudo religion. Nor do they believe in the benevolence of government.
Smart people try to signal it and it’s difficult to just ignore their stupidity and programming. Simple people talk about simple things and it’s just less frustrating to be around them. And they tend to appreciate it if you explain something interesting to them.
So that is why I enjoy the company of the common people. It’s emotionally rich and it’s less polluted with the signaling of the cathedral. And so I don’t feel the constant need to defend the informational commons.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-01 05:29:00 UTC
So I know how to put it into words now:
These women are more beautiful. The look and act feminine. They are perfectly happy celebrating womanhood and expressing it. They are cautious but willing. But they are not emotionally available. And when they appear to be it is just what they consider good manners.
We are more emotionally available. We have lost a great deal in obtaining that emotional availability.
Relationships are where ours were centuries ago.
So this is one of the reasons men cheat here so frequently.
Now I have to think about this more.
I suspect it correlates with the creativity deficit here.
Hmmm….
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-01 05:08:00 UTC
Working men have beautiful hands.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-01 04:19:00 UTC
Happy Orthodox Easter
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-01 03:40:00 UTC
Contempt is just the first step to hatred.
Contempt starts with a lie to yourself – an over-expectation.
Contempt blossoms when you cannot believe your own lie.
Contempt starts as expression and matures with anger.
Some of us experience tragedy.
Most of us survive it – at a cost.
Some of us break our minds.
Some of us break our hearts.
Some of us break our souls.
Some of us break all three.
Some of us compensate with exaggerated love
Some of us compensate with exaggerated acceptance
Some of us compensate with exaggerated discipline.
Some of us compensate with exaggerated disdain.
It is a mistake to over-invest in fixing broken people
Unless they are willing to over-invest in fixing broken others too.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-01 03:40:00 UTC